BlendShape Monitor for Maya helps fix your messy character rigs

Neat new add-on displays the effect of individual shapes as real-time heatmaps, helping troubleshoot complex facial and full-body rigs.

Monday, February 2nd, 2026

Get Epic Games' free Pose Driver Connect for Maya and UE5

Handy free tool transfers secondary animation set-ups authored in Maya to MetaHumans and other characters in Unreal Engine.

Thursday, December 7th, 2023

Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.7 for Maya

Soft tissue simulation plugin's neat Art Directable Rest Shapes system lets you sculpt corrective shapes for existing sims.

Thursday, September 26th, 2019

Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.6 for Maya

Soft tissue simulation plugin's neat anatomy transfer function ports rigs from one character to another.

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

Miquel Campos releases mGear 2.5 for Maya

Free Maya rigging framework gets new RBF Manager and updated Simple Rig auto-rigging system.

Thursday, May 31st, 2018

Hans Godard releases RBF Solver for Maya

Naughty Dog TD's neat add-on automatically fires off complex correctives to fix mesh deformation issues in rigs.

Monday, March 9th, 2015

MetaHuman DNA add-on for Blender gets new RBF Editor

Poly Hammer's Character DNA add-on lets you edit MetaHuman facial and body rigs inside Blender, including their RBF corrective poses.

Tuesday, March 31st, 2026

Fabric Software announces Fabric Engine 2.6

Platform for developing VFX and games tools gets support for USD, Autodesk's AnimX, new RBF solver.

Friday, August 4th, 2017